“Baltimore – General [Robert] Schenck has added another wreath to his justly earned laurels. He has broken up the infamous slave pens of our city – those black holes in which men, women and children have been thrust and confined for no other crime than being slaves. All the slaves found in these pens belonged to rebels, and they were put there for safekeeping at the expense of the owners, but General Schenck has confiscated the whole of them. The able-bodied men enlisted at once in Colonel Birney’s regiment.”